Re: Feature request: read-only admin view

2013-08-16 Thread Florian Apolloner
On Friday, August 16, 2013 6:19:03 PM UTC+2, Trevor Cox wrote: > > At least two people have already submitted a patch. > Chances that they still work are not really big. > The issue is not the coding but that the feature request is being rejected. > I see 3 core-devs in this thread which seem

Re: Feature request: read-only admin view

2013-08-16 Thread Trevor Cox
At least two people have already submitted a patch. The issue is not the coding but that the feature request is being rejected. I'm commenting because I don't think the arguments against the feature have considered all the use cases for read only admin access; they're just assuming that

Re: Feature request: read-only admin view

2013-08-16 Thread Florian Apolloner
As with most open source projects; if you really want to see this done feel free to get coding and submit a patch :) Cheers, Florian On Friday, August 16, 2013 9:01:07 AM UTC+2, Trevor Cox wrote: > > There are lots of reasons why read-only/view permissions are appropriate > for an admin

Re: Feature request: read-only admin view

2013-08-16 Thread Trevor Cox
There are lots of reasons why read-only/view permissions are appropriate for an admin system. I'd really like to see this done! I want to be able to give readonly admin accounts to my designers, developers, sales reps and sales prospects, because I want them to be able to try out the admin

Re: Feature request: read-only admin view

2012-01-30 Thread Julien Phalip
Hi, This feature has been discussed in the past on this mailing list (e.g., http://goo.gl/ezMpc and more recently: http://goo.gl/j1CPv). There has also been talks about merging the databrowse contrib app into the admin (see this ticket: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/8936 or the GSoC

Re: Feature request: read-only admin view

2012-01-30 Thread Anssi Kääriäinen
+1 from me too. One point is that if you are just browsing the admin, then viewing the objects in read-only mode is nicer than viewing them in edit forms. Especially for select/select multiple fields. Although this might need a bit bigger change into the UI (two links per list item: "view" and

Re: Feature request: read-only admin view

2012-01-30 Thread Daniel Sokolowski
+1 django has grown since the original design decision and as a rapid development framework it sells itself it ought to have it --- me thinks. Daniel On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Russell Keith-Magee < russ...@keith-magee.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Chris Wilson

Re: Feature request: read-only admin view

2012-01-28 Thread Danny Adair
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 04:13, Daniel Greenfeld wrote: >[...] >> The original reason -- that the admin isn't intended as a general >> purpose site, just a backend editing interface -- is still valid. I'm >> not in favor of trying to turn the admin into something that people >>

Re: Feature request: read-only admin view

2012-01-27 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Chris Wilson wrote: > Hi all, > > I really like how the admin interface does a lot of the work for me in > developing a site with basic CRUD functions, and a few free bonuses > like pagination and list filtering. > > I agree with all the

Re: Feature request: read-only admin view

2012-01-27 Thread Juan Pablo Martínez
+1. This feature is simple and not implies backwards compatibilities or security problems. BTW, is very useful. On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Chris Wilson wrote: > mins only, -- juanpex -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups